ConnectToAS.php

<?php
/**
 * Created by JetBrains PhpStorm.
 * User: cknowles
 * Date: 09/01/2014
 * Time: 14:38
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 */

$resp = httpRequest("localhost",
    8089, "POST", "/locations",
    array("firstName" => "John", "lastName" => "Doe"));

function httpRequest($host, $port, $method, $path, $params) {
    // Params are a map from names to values
    $paramStr = "";
    foreach ($params as $name, $val) {
        $paramStr .= $name . "=";
        $paramStr .= urlencode($val);
        $paramStr .= "&";
    }

  // Assign defaults to $method and $port, if needed
  if (empty($method)) {
      $method = 'GET';
  }
  $method = strtoupper($method);
  if (empty($port)) {
      $port = 80; // Default HTTP port
  }

  // Create the connection
  $sock = fsockopen($host, $port);
  if ($method == "GET") {
      $path .= "?" . $paramStr;
  }
  fputs($sock, "$method $path HTTP/1.1\r\n");
  fputs($sock, "Host: $host\r\n");
  fputs($sock, "Content-type: " .
      "application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n");
  if ($method == "POST") {
      fputs($sock, "Content-length: " .
          strlen($paramStr) . "\r\n");
  }
  fputs($sock, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");
  if ($method == "POST") {
      fputs($sock, $paramStr);
  }

  // Buffer the result
  $result = "";
  while (!feof($sock)) {
      $result .= fgets($sock,1024);
  }

  fclose($sock);
  return $result;
}